Catabolism of the Last Two Steroid Rings in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Other Bacteria
Most mycolic acid-containing actinobacteria and some proteobacteria use steroids as growth substrates, but the catabolism of the last two steroid rings has yet to be elucidated. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, this pathway includes virulence determinants and has been proposed to be encoded by the Kst...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-04-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/2/e00321-17 |